Senior Mechanical Engineer

About the Company

Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based startup building the world’s first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. The company’s first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1-megawatt, fail-safe microreactor designed to provide critical power to hospitals, data centers, and remote sites.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of critical structures such as mass-efficient transportable shielding systems, container systems, and high temperature graphite and metallic systems
• Conduct trade studies and develop designs to meet program requirements
• Perform detailed thermomechanical analysis (static strength, durability/fatigue) and dynamic analysis (vibration, shock)
• Develop and execute manufacturing/assembly instructions and test plans
• Create and manage a Bill-Of-Materials (BOM)
• Find and develop suppliers for components
• Own subassembly design, manufacturing, and test schedules
• Own risk analysis (FMEA) for subsystems
• Provide expertise and feedback to engineers in other functional areas

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aeronautical, Civil or Structural Engineering
• 6+ years of experience designing structures
• 4+ years of experience performing stress analysis using hand calculations and finite element tools (Abaqus, Ansys, FEMAP, or similar)
• Ability to work 100% onsite in El Segundo, CA
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as necessary

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with design of multi-component assemblies in CAD (NX or similar)
• Experience designing hardware that was manufactured, deployed, and iteratively improved
• Experience resolving thermal expansion issues in designs
• Solid understanding and application of GD&T
• Proficiency with text-based software development tools